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This book is a landmark in Mexican rural history. Activists and professional historians have long argued that the nineteenth-century privatization of indigenous communal lands was the original sin that laid the ground for the agrarian strife of the twentieth century. Many also claimed that this privatization drove the political mobilizations of indigenous peasants even before the Revolution. Nevertheless, very few historians have actually studied the process through which indigenous lands were privatized, and their findings have been published mostly as tantalizing but sketchy articles. In...

David Christian, el creador de la "big history", de la "gran historia" que enlaza la evolución del cosmos, de la vida y de la humanidad para ofrecernos una perspectiva distinta de los grandes problemas del Antropoceno, culmina su obra con este libro realmente único, que discurre desde el big bang, el sistema solar, la aparición de la vida, los dinosaurios, el homo sapiens y los grandes imperios hasta la globalización. Un libro que ha despertado el entusiasmo de lectores como Bill Gates o el físico Carlo Rovelli quien considera esta disciplina "un método espectacular para, a través de...

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Suggesting that better understanding of conflicts between Anglo and Latin America can come from the study of their contrasting popular fictions, the author compares the traditional attachment in Latin America to government by a strong man—a caudillo—to the diametrically opposed expansionist frontier ideology of the United States—the cowboy—who makes space safe for Anglo colonization.